Abstract: A work tool includes a spindle, a clamp shaft and at least one biasing part. The spindle is configured to be reciprocally rotated within a specified angle range around a driving axis. The spindle has a first inclined face inclined in a direction crossing the driving axis. The clamp shaft includes a shaft part and a head part. The shaft part is configured to be coaxially inserted into the spindle. The head part is formed on a lower end portion of the shaft part and configured to clamp the tool accessory in cooperation with the spindle while a second inclined face of the tool accessory is pressed against the first inclined face. The at least one biasing part is provided in the spindle and configured to always bias the tool accessory downward while the tool accessory is clamped by the head part and the spindle.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a mounting unit on which a medium storing authentication information for passing through a toll road is mountable, a detector which is configured to detect a state where the medium is mounted on the mounting unit or a state where the medium is not mounted on the mounting unit, and an automated driving controller which is configured to perform automated driving and change control details of the automated driving on the basis of detection results obtained by the detector, wherein the automated driving controller configured to determine whether to change a target gate or not on the basis of a relationship between a time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a time when the vehicle is expected to arrive at the target gate or a relationship between a position of the vehicle at the time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a position of the target gate.

Abstract: A power tool includes a motor, a spindle, an inner housing, an outer housing formed by an upper member and a lower member, a pair of interposing members and a pair of elastic members. The interposing members are arranged leftward and rightward of the inner housing, respectively, and fixedly connected to a first member, which is one of the upper member and the lower member, and at least partially in contact with an inner surface of the first member. The elastic members are held between a left portion of the inner housing and one of the interposing members and between a right portion of the inner housing and the other of the interposing members, respectively. A first end portion of each of the interposing members has at least one first surface extending to be closer to the inner housing toward a tip end of the first end portion.

Abstract: An ink set includes an ink composition and a treatment liquid composition. Each of the ink composition and the treatment liquid composition is used for printing by being applied onto a printing medium by an ink jet method. The ink composition is a water-based composition containing a coloring material and a surfactant. The treatment liquid composition is a water-based composition containing a flocculant and a surfactant. Any one of the ink composition and the treatment liquid composition contains a nitrogen-containing solvent. Each of the surfactant contained in the ink composition and the surfactant contained in the treatment liquid composition includes a silicone surfactant whose 0.1 mass % aqueous solution has a surface tension of 32 mN/m or less. Any one of the surfactant contained in the ink composition and the surfactant contained in the treatment liquid composition includes a silicone surfactant whose 0.1 mass % solution in a nitrogen-containing solvent has a surface tension of 32 mN/m or less.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a virtual line setter configured to set virtual lines in front of a gate on the basis of the position of the gate, and a gate passing controller configured to perform vehicle control when a vehicle passes through the gate on the basis of the virtual lines set by the virtual line setter.

Abstract: An ink jet printing method includes scanning a printing medium in a scanning direction a plurality of times with an ink jet head from which inks and a treatment liquid acting to flocculate constituents of the inks are ejected. The ink jet head includes first ink nozzles filled with a first ink and arranged in a sub-scanning direction, second ink nozzles filled with a second ink having a different composition from the first ink and arranged in the sub-scanning direction, and treatment liquid nozzles filled with the treatment liquid and arranged in the sub-scanning direction. At least some of the treatment liquid nozzles are coincident in the sub-scanning direction with the first and second ink nozzles. The first ink nozzles are closest to the treatment liquid nozzles in the scanning direction, and the first ink exhibits a viscosity increase by a factor of 6.0 or less.

Abstract: A vehicle control device (1) includes an automated driving control unit (100) configured to execute automated driving of a vehicle and an acquisition unit (124) configured to acquire movement states in a running direction and a lateral direction of the vehicle. The automated driving control unit is configured to execute the automated driving such that the movement states which have been acquired by the acquisition unit before the automated driving has been started are maintained in a predetermined time or a predetermined distance when automated driving has been started by switching from manual driving.

Abstract: A passing gate determining device including: an information acquirer configured to acquire a status of vehicles in front of gates in a place in which a plurality of gates are aligned; and a gate selector configured to select a gate through which a vehicle is to pass among the plurality of gates on the basis of the status acquired by the information acquirer.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle selector configured to select, from among other vehicles present near an own vehicle, another vehicle that the own vehicle is to follow when traveling in front of a gate as a following target vehicle, and a gate passage controller configured to cause the own vehicle to travel following the following target vehicle selected by the vehicle selector when passing through the gate.

Abstract: A work tool includes a spindle, a clamp shaft, a holding member, an engagement member and a first biasing member. The holding member has a pass-through part. The engagement member is rotatable around a driving axis relative to the holding member between a first position in which the engagement member is allowed to pass through the pass-through part and a second position in which the engagement member is engaged with the holding member. The engagement member allows the clamp shaft to move in an up-down direction relative to the holding member when located in the first position, and to prevent the clamp shaft from moving downward relative to the holding member when located in the second position. The holding member is configured to fixedly hold the clamp shaft relative to the spindle while being biased upward by the first biasing member, with the engagement member in the second position.

Abstract: An electric power tool disclosed herein may include a motor; a power transmission mechanism connected to the motor; a housing that houses the motor and the power transmission mechanism; a tip tool holder connected to the power transmission mechanism; a cover covering the tip tool holder partially; a first locking mechanism configured to switch between a first locking state and a first unlocked state; and a second locking mechanism configured to switch between a second locking state and a second unlocked state. In the electric power tool, the cover may become detachable from the housing when the user performs the second unlocking operation on the second locking mechanism and the first unlocking operation on the first locking mechanism.

Abstract: A maintenance method for an ink jet recording apparatus that performs recording using an ink composition and a treatment liquid containing a coagulant, wherein the ink jet recording apparatus has an ink jet head for ejecting the ink composition, the method includes a wiping step of wiping a nozzle-forming surface of the ink jet head with a maintenance liquid and an absorbent wiping member, and the maintenance liquid contains water that constitutes 80% or more by mass of a total mass of the maintenance liquid.

Abstract: A power tool, such as a grinder, may include: a prime mover such as a motor; a power-transmission mechanism operably connected to the prime mover; a housing that houses the prime mover and the power-transmission mechanism; and a tool-accessory retaining part for holding a tool accessary. The tool-accessory retaining part is operably connected to the power-transmission mechanism. An accessory is mounted on the housing in a detachable manner. A link member moves in response to mounting and demounting of the accessory. A detection sensor is housed in an interior of the housing and includes a non-contact sensor device. The detection sensor is configured to detect movement of the link member using the non-contact sensor device.

Abstract: Several means 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75 are provided for restricting a relative displacement in a separating direction of half-split housings 50L, 50R. At one or more of several screw-connection parts 60 of the left and right half-split housings 50L, 50R, a press-fitting protrusion 71a is provided in an insertion hole 62a of a boss-receiving part 62 into which a screw-boss part 61 is inserted. By press-fitting the screw-boss part 61 to the boss-receiving part 62, a separation resistance may be introduced between the left and right half-split housings 50L, 50R.

Abstract: A power tool (1), such as a multi-tool, includes: a motor (21) extending in a front-rear direction; a motor housing (2) that houses the motor (21); a head housing (7) held forward of the motor housing (2); and an output shaft (60) protruding downward from the head housing (7). The head housing (7) may be made of a resin. In addition or in the alternative, the head housing (7) includes a lower-head housing case (4) screw fastened to an upper-head housing cover (5). In addition or in the alternative, the motor housing has a two-halved structure in which two half housings (2a, 2b) are screw fastened together.

Abstract: A recording method includes: ejecting colored ink compositions that include a cyan ink composition, a magenta ink composition, a yellow ink composition, and a special color ink composition with a hue angle different from hue angles of the respective ink compositions from an ink jet head and causing the ink compositions to adhere to a recording medium; and causing a processing solution containing a coagulant for coagulating constituents of the colored ink compositions to adhere to the recording medium, the causing of the ink compositions to adhere is performed by performing scanning, in which the colored ink compositions are ejected while a relative position of the ink jet head with respect to the recording medium is changed in a scanning direction, a plurality of times, and a maximum distance of scanning performed once in the causing of the ink compositions to adhere is equal to or greater than 50 cm.

Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes a treatment liquid attachment step, in which a treatment liquid is attached to a recording medium, and an ink attachment step, in which a water-based ink composition is attached to the recording medium. An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording medium support and a heating mechanism that heats the recording medium support. The ink attachment step is carried out with the recording medium supported and heated by the recording medium support. In the ink attachment step, the recording medium is heated so that a surface thereof reaches a maximum temperature of 28.0° C. or more and 45.0° C. or less. The ratio between absorbances A and B (A/B) is 0.5 or more and 0.95 or less, where absorbance A is that of a 0.1% by mass mixture of the water-based ink composition in the treatment liquid, and absorbance B is that of a 0.1% by mass mixture of the water-based ink composition in purified water.

Abstract: A recording method includes: ejecting colored ink compositions that include a light colored ink composition and a dark colored ink composition that belong to a same color system and have different color density from an ink jet head and causing the ink compositions to adhere to a recording medium; and causing a processing solution that contains a coagulant for coagulating constituents of the colored ink compositions to adhere to the recording medium, the causing of the ink compositions to adhere is performed by performing scanning, in which the colored ink compositions are ejected while a relative position of the ink jet head with respect to the recording medium is changed in a scanning direction, a plurality of times, and a width in the scanning direction of the recording medium is equal to or greater than 50 cm.

Abstract: An electric tool, such as an angle driver, has a main tool body with a front portion and a rear portion positioned opposite to the front portion. The main tool body houses a motor configured to receive electricity to function as a drive source. A gear head is coupled with the front portion of the main tool body wherein the gear head has a spindle in communication with a motor axis of the motor via mesh-engagement of bevel gears associated with the motor axis. The spindle has with a cutter tool accessory attached thereto such that rotation of the motor axis produces a commensurate rotation of the cutter tool accessory. Battery attachment portions are associated with the rear portion of the main tool body and are configured to receive a corresponding set of batteries that provide electricity to power the motor.

Abstract: A printing method for printing a printing medium whose printed side will be laminated after being printed. The printing method includes a non-white ink application step of applying an aqueous non-white ink composition containing a non-white coloring material onto the printing medium, a white ink application step of applying an aqueous white ink composition containing a white coloring material onto the non-white ink composition on the printing medium, and a clear ink application step of applying a clear ink composition containing a resin onto the white ink composition on the printing medium.